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Scammings bad, mkay. Though, I suppose for educational purposes, I can elaborate on how it works. Basically you need to be able to upload a server side application (i.e. PHP or python script) to a web server, and disguise it as an image file (though this technically isn't actually required, many websites will whitelist the file extension, so you couldn't use a php/py file within image tags). If your server runs apache, you might want create a rewrite rule using the mod_rewrite apache module, though there are alternatives for other server environments as well). You could then use that image on the website (i.e. on LG you could throw it in the img bbcode tag), and it would then throw the image url within the img html tag, essentially executing the server side PHP code from the client. The same technique can be used to grab details (albeit pretty rubbish details) from the client, such as IP address, browser, etc.
You can't do it on Facebook because Facebook doesn't embed its images for the viewer. It caches them locally and displays the Facebook-CDN cached version, which won't include the "phisher."
Why do people like scamming Facebook accounts anyway? I don't see the use of it.
A person's address, name, date of birth, and every piece of data about their interests is worth huge money to corporations. And if you get a lot of accounts, you can even use them all to Like a page in mass at the expense of the page owner. Lots of reasons.
Hmm, that's an interesting idea. Someone had asked me for a Facebook phisher a few weeks ago, so I think I might get started working on that now. There are so many interesting things you can do when you control a large number of people's online identities. You could ruin their lives, ruin their friend's lives, cause huge shifts in page likes and stuff, or screw up marketing statistics by having them all like a page like Nike, and then unlike it a month later with all of them, so they start seeing huge shifts in likes and are wondering what they're doing wrong lol.
It's also hugely illegal so that would be a stupid thing to do.
I'm just making it for educational web programming practice, and I'm posting my code here for people to look at and learn off of. What they do with it is their own fault, not mine.
I'm just making it for educational web programming practice, and I'm posting my code here for people to look at and learn off of. What they do with it is their own fault, not mine.
Claims selling drugs is stupid due to the illegality.
Engages in web activities that carry even harsher penalties.
Claims selling drugs is stupid due to the illegality.
Engages in web activities that carry even harsher penalties.
Fine logic.
Yeah man. While I don't disagree with that train of logic, selling drugs is an IRL crime. As in offline. Chances are significantly higher of being penalized if you don't play your cards right.
This is simply scamming/phishing on the internet, on a children's roleplay game. Which is still reprehensible, but if you play your cards properly you, conversely, have a significantly lower chance of being penalized.
But at the end of the day, Flare still is playing Mr. Ethical while partaking in unethical activities himself.
I don't know, I guess I just don't see how online crimes correlate to the real world, besides insane things like credit card phishing and shit. And the Nike thing was a joke, haha, I was just talking about the type of power you would have if you phished facebook accounts.
But like, I don't see why people should get jail time for phishing accounts for things like Gaia. Seriously, it's not like anyone cares that much. It's an online game, lol.
Yeah man. While I don't disagree with that train of logic, selling drugs is an IRL crime. As in offline. Chances are significantly higher of being penalized if you don't play your cards right.
This is simply scamming/phishing on the internet, on a children's roleplay game. Which is still reprehensible, but if you play your cards properly you, conversely, have a significantly lower chance of being penalized.
But at the end of the day, Flare still is playing Mr. Ethical while partaking in unethical activities himself.
Not a children's roleplay game. Facebook. You start accessing people's personal information (address, date of birth, etc.), it becomes a more serious issue. Especially when you use the accounts for Likes and all, which is even closer to identity theft.
Anyway, doing it for practice is one thing. Actually getting account information is another.
If you want to practice, don't do the latter.
I have no clue on the legality of the distributing code. Maybe if it's not compiled, it'd be legal as an educational thing.